August 12, 2010

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I reckon the mosquitoes are bad everywhere now. The ones on the barrier islands off Virginia and Maryland are huge and plentiful. But I've heard that they all take a backseat to the midwestern mosquitoes, particularly Wisconsin's. I don't know why they are so vicious though.

They've been especially bad this year from, I'm told, an unusually wet spring.

I started looking to methods to make my backyard more enjoyable, sans little biting insects, and ended up with two alternatives. The first one would make Algore have a conniption...if 1) carbon dioxide caused climate change and 2) if he actually cared about 1. It's a propane-powered CO2 generator that attracts all the mosquitoes and kills them via a vacuum attachment. Cool, but not as cool as...

BATS

A bat house is remarkably simple to build and we've got plenty of them about. A good colony can keep your yard completely free mosquitoes...and your surrounding neighbors as well. Attracting the first few can be frustrating though. Once you get it up and running, though, it works like a charm. You just have to keep the pets out of the guano.

I started by following all of the online advice on facing and such, but didn't have any luck. Then I tried a couple of trees that seem to catch the sun for most of the day (pine oaks generally have long empty trunks on the lower 1/3). I found that, regardless of facing, we seemed to do best with heights between 15 and 20 feet.

Alpha...National Geographic has long been a propaganda sheet for the Greens Party. That was fine because pollution is a problem that needs to be cleaned up. But the Great Global Warming Hoax from energy use by men is a pure theft by fraud. When the winters freeze earlier and longer than mosquitoes are la shorter problem, but an unusual rainy pattern can develop during the summer months. The clouds and overcast days are the forcing mechanism of both cooler-longer winters and unusual rainy patterns in the summer. Therefore an intense but shorter mosquito season indicates continued cooling from a lack of solar flares needed to block cloud formation. If the National Geographic "scientists" have built one more silly "warm weather is bad" house of cards for political reasons , then we should just ignore them.